Word: niggerism
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...fact Black.White. is a minstrel show that reveals nothing and diminishes everyone. The white father is so thick-headed that he thinks the only way to prove racism exists is for someone to come up and yell, ?Hey, Nigger,? while he?s in black make-up. The black father is so paranoid that he sees racism in every little twitch and movement made by whites. Characters attempt to get the black experience by playing dominos and doing spoken word, while their counterparts seek the white experience in knitting and charm school...
...hosted by the Sweet Mother Tour (SMT)—a global project of artists and activists dedicated to using pop culture to spread positive images of Africa. “Over 100 years of tyranny and oppression didn’t make an African a nigger, but 15 years of hip hop did it...and some of us are fed up,” SMT founder Derrick N. Ashong ’97 said at Saturday’s opening speech. “If pop culture can turn us against ourselves, then why can?...
...show's most uncomfortable scenes involve the use of the word nigger. Bruno announces that he can't wait for some racist to call him the name; it never happens, but he and Carmen hear the word dozens of times when they visit a black comedy club. Meanwhile, Nick, who says he has never been affected by racism, tells a group of white friends who know he's black that he doesn't care if they use the word, to his parents' mortification. (Nick and Rose's lack of racial baggage will strike viewers as either hopeful or naive...
...room was dotted with coal miners, some of whom braved fierce criticism from Appalachian rivals, and one white participant, Peggy Terry, admitted being raised in a Kentucky Klan family. After moving to Montgomery during the bus boycott, she had gone once on a lark to see "that smart aleck nigger come out of jail," and the actual sight of King buffeted by a mob had angered her. Now Terry kept a few black friends in the Jobs Or Income Now group from uptown Chicago's poor white district, and she wowed movement crowds by asking where else a hillbilly housewife...
...aspired to something which white culture has held up so high in itself is a sellout,” he said. Kennedy, who is working on a book about movements against minorities perceived to have lost their roots, is the bestselling author of the controversial books “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word” and “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.” He also cited some examples of figures who have been labeled as sellouts—such as Christopher Darden, an African-American prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson...